Nokia 6230

Airplane vs. MP3

One reason I bought the 6230 is the MP3 player. One place I like to listen to MP3s is on an airplane. However, having a cell phone on during a plane trip is not allowed. Is there a way for my to safely disable the phone reception so that I can use it in-flight?

There shud be an Airplane/flight mode in every cellphone - which would disable the radio. But I prefer to switch the fone off anyway as not many flight attendants can understand the concept. and by law you are supposed to follow ALL crew member instructions however stupid they may be.

I don't believe ANY phone works above about 2K - 3K ft. Most of the antennas aren't recievable above that altitude, so phone communication may be a mute point. Try it yourself, put the phone in a bag you can monitor, place it on silent, and then monitor to see when you lose signal...... for sure above about 10k feet you're not picking up NADA!!!!!

I was under the impression that the cell radios would interfere with the plane/tower communication, which would mainly be affected in the 0 - 3k ft range, hence why you can't use a CD player or GameBoy until they hit "cruising altitude." Now, keep in mind that the cell phone rules came out around the time of Analog, which was terrible for giving off interference, so I suspect that the FCC is just lazy in doing more research on the subject.

I would be interested to see if there are any applications out there to enable MP3 enabled phones to go into "airplane mode" I actually had a RIM mobitex pager that could do such a thing. But the point has also been made that you have to do what the flight crew tells you to do so it might not make a difference.

I have a dead sim card that I got from my store. The phone recognizes it as a unregistered sim, but all of the phones other features still work. When you land, pop your active sim card in, and your ready to use your phone again.

it will still allow emergency calls and therefore is effectively on.the thing is that if you are not initiating a call, your phone is not an active radio device, it is "listening” and not emitting any radio waves, so it's theoretically and for all practical purposes “OK” to have it on the plane, just don't try to dial and call anyone, and hopeful nobody will be able to reach you 30K ft high.Not that the flight attendants allow you to do it, but you don’t have to flash it. Just have you headphones on and tuck the phone away. You conscious can be clear - you will not be cause any interference, because, as I said you device inactive, passive coil waiting for a signal (strong, directed magnetic field) from the cell tower to create (...(continues)

GENERALLY, with all technologies, except iDEN (Nextel), the phone, when it’s switched on, first registers with the closest/most available tower. Then it is passive until it’s called. The system knows what tower you are registered with and sends the first request for connection to that tower. If the phone is not answering they have the different algorithms to ask the towers around and so forth - to start emitting the request for connection with the phone. Sometimes the algorithms is set up not to go further then the region. It used to be (a few years ago) with CDMA (Verizon) that if you had your phone ON all throughout the flight and tried to call as soon as you landed, the sig...(continues)